Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the major 18th century British playwrights and an important novelist.

Life

He was born at Sha

Works

1728 ''Love in Several Masques'' (play)

1730 ''The Author's Farce''

1731 ''The Tragedy of Tragedies''

1731 ''The Grub-Street Opera''

1732 ''The Modern Husband''

1732 ''The Covent-Garden Tragedy''

1733 ''The Miser''

1734 ''Don Quixote in England''

1736 ''Pasquin''

1737 ''Eurydice''

1737 ''The Historical Register''

1737 ''Eurydice Hiss'd''

1741 ''Shamela'' (novel)

1742 ''Joseph Andrews'' (novel)

1743 ''Miscellanies''1749 ''Tom Jones'' (novel)

1753 ''A proposal for Making an Effectual Provision for the Poor''

1755 ''The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon'' (published posthumously)

Sources

Rawson, Claude (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding. Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

Uglow, Jenny. Henry Fielding. Plymouth: Northcote House, 1995.